Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 2 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 3 | The fact is Koi have a pecking order — not based on aggression , so much as a will to be first up to the pellets . |
| 4 | However , once you understand what the lace carriage does you will realise that it is n't a separate mechanism so much as a supplement to your knitting carriage . |
| 5 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |
| 6 | The liquid picture is pierced by petrified trees and paddling between the towering , upturned roots and the column-like trunks is as haunting as a visit to a sunken city . |
| 7 | And on a cold , blustery night in Dublin his brand of delta blues with enough wah-wah to set the pulse a quiver , was as welcome as a soupkitchen to the indigent . |
| 8 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |
| 9 | ‘ A nod is as good as a wink to a blind man ’ the saying goes — and so it may be , for the man can see neither . |
| 10 | LITTLE is known of the interdecadal variability in the thermohaline circulation of the world 's oceans , yet such knowledge is essential as a background to studies of the effects of natural and anthropogenic climate change . |
| 11 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 12 | But it would also be just as probable as a jump to any other biomorph in the land . |
| 13 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 14 | He lay as close as a sheet to a blanket ; and he smelt of decay , but that no longer mattered . |
| 15 | It 's nice as a Minister to be able to do this , to look after your own patch . ’ |
| 16 | The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket , which was what it was principally used for . |